2025-10-30 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board October 30, 2025 B. MAB Quarterly Reports: July - September 2025 (Administrative Services Division, Classification & Pay Division, Equal Opportunity/Ada Division, Health & Safety Division, Personnel & Organizational Development Division, Recruitment & Examination Division, Workers’ Compensation Division) CHR. CABANAS: Okay, so we are still with the “Director’s Report”—and we are now on MAB Quarterly Report for July through September 2025, and all the divisions have submitted their report. Let’s see—it’s the orange tab. Have you, Board members, read through everything? This is where Niel, you had the question on the County’s vehicle equipment property damage reports. MR. THOMAS: (Inaudible.) MS. BOND: Microphone— CHR. CABANAS: Oh, your mic.— MR. THOMAS: Oh, sorry. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. MR. THOMAS: Yes, the report is in the Administrative Services Section—and it shows that since 2022, I think, it’s been cut in half from over 200 incidents to double-digits now in the 90’s. CHR. CABANAS: No, Its own—its own report. MS. BOND: (Inaudible.) CHR. CABANAS: Yeah, towards the back—because there’s the Admin. Services Division, Classification and Pay, the third page is Equal Opportunity/ADA, the fifth page is the equipment—vehicle equipment property damage report. MR. THOMAS: That’s where it is—yeah. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. So, that comes under “Health and Safety”—Sommer? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. And so, as I mentioned, of course, we’re happy to see those numbers decline. And I think, in part, it could be related to additional security that the County has contracted to, kind of, keep an eye on facilities and vehicles. MR. THOMAS: I can see why some of these crimes would take place, but why on earth would anybody steal the calibration weights from the Hilo scale—I mean, what are they going to do with them? Page 10